www.bamberg.army.mil VOL. 7, Issue 22
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Thursday May 31, 2012
Penalties to be enforced for violation of new sign-in procedures Guests who fail to sign out will be barred returns to form to the sponsor. from all installations in the Franconia Military Community, which includes USAG Ansbach, After midnight, the security guards will check BAMBERG, Germany -- Soldiers, family Bamberg and Schweinfurt. all remaining agreements on file and report violators of the 24-hour requirement to the members and Department of Defense civilians who fail to follow new procedures next week The sponsor and guest must fill out and sign military police. when signing in non-identification cardholders a U.S. Army Garrison Bamberg Sponsor and onto Warner Barracks will be subject to losing Guest Sign In Agreement form. Soldiers who fail to sign out their guest will their sign-in privileges beginning Friday. be charged with an Article 92 and civilians The security guard will complete an Installation will be charged with Civilian Misconduct The new procedures went in to effect May 1, Access Control System sign in and file the Action Authority and both will lose their sign in but the penalties for violating the rules have agreement. privileges. not been enforced. Violators have been given a warning. At the end of the visit, the sponsor and guest The form can be found at http://www.bamberg. must return to the customer service window army.mil/directorates/des/GUESTPASS. pdf. For more information on guest sign in For the first offense, sponsors will lose sign in and sign out. privileges for 30 days, 60 days for the second procedures, call Installation Access Control offense and permanently for the third offense. A security guard completes the sign out and System Office at 0951-300-7709 or 7918. By Sina Kingsbury, USAG Bamberg Public Affairs
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Lennon said her 11-year-old daughter has gone on some of the runs. Members meet at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays inside the lobby of the Freedom Fitness Center and then run three to four miles around Micah Hixon, a Soldier with the 54th Engineer Battalion, attended one of the club’s runs for the first time on May 17. post. These maintenance runs take about 45 minutes to an hour, Woodruff Hixon said he moved from Fort Riley, Kan., to Bamberg in early May and thought the running club would be a good way to meet people in said. the community. On Sundays, the club meets for longer runs at 4:30 p.m. at the pavilion He said he does not consider himself a runner. in the park on Hainstrasse. Woodruff said the Sunday runs started out as three- or four-mile runs “I have to run because I am in the Army,” Hixon said. “I thought this and are currently about eight miles. She said they will continue to would be a cool way to improve my running.” increase in distance. Woodruff said the runs happen regardless of the weather. Woodruff said the running club, which is sponsored by the Freedom Fitness Facility and the Bamberg Health Clinic, is free and open to “Tuesday (May 15) was too miserable,” Woodruff said. “We ran one mile upstairs (on the Freedom Fitness Facility’s indoor track) then the rain anyone in the community. stopped so we went outside.” Soldiers, family members, children and even dogs come along on the Woodruff said the running club is not just about getting or staying in runs. shape. It is also about having fun. Woodruff said sometimes parents push young children in strollers. “We get together and joke with each other,” she said. Wanda Lennon said she joined the running club to get in shape and lose weight. She said she has lost about 10 pounds since the club started Lennon said it is also a good way to stay connected with the community. in March. “It gives us time to talk and find out what’s happening around post,” Lennon said. “I thought it was something I could do,” said Lennon. Lennon said it is nice to have other members of the club running For more information about the running club, send an email to bambergrunningclub@yahoo.com or call the Freedom Fitness Facility alongside as encouragement. at 0951-300-8890. “Nobody is ever left behind,” Lennon said. “You don’t feel guilty because
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